Oh… baby?
It certainly appeared as if Jo would have some bug news for Alex on Grey’s Anatomy Season 12 Episode 3, at least according to the way ABC promoted this installment.
And early on in the hour, Jo did seem to confide in Stephanie that she’s pregnant.
She then asked Alex, out of nowhere, whether he wanted to have kids and got angry when he hesitated with his response.
With his personal life confusing and maddening, Alex was treating newborn twins with liver cancer in his professional life.
The father was a donor match, but that only helped one child. Because these was no way for the parents to decide which baby lived and which died, Alex said he could make the call.
That night, we learned Jo is NOT actually pregnant. Instead, she found papers that clued her in to Alex’s frozen embryos… with Izzie. Wow, an Izzie reference!
Jo was clearly upset, thinking Izzie was the woman with whom Alex really wanted to have children and that left her as the woman with whom maybe he just wanted to have a dog or something.
Back at work, things weren’t any better. Unable to save both kids, Alex held the dying baby until he flatlined (and until we cried our eyes out).
Arizona was at least able to save the other baby and then Alex went home to tell Jo he was ready to have kids if that’s what she wanted.
Elsewhere, Jackson tried to kick April out… and failed? That’s right, he returned home that night to a home-cooked meal and to the news that his wife was not giving up on them.
After arguing about whether she was committed to their marriage or whether she needed to be committed, Jackson moved on to go crash at Bailey and Ben’s place.
Meanwhile, Callie and Amelia encouraged Meredith to renegotiate her bad contract (which she did in the end, much to Bailey’s delight because she wanted to see Meredith step up).
Maggie didn’t really chime in, though, because she was questioning her life choices after being invited to Ethan’s wedding.
Finally, Maggie went up and kissed Andrew… and, based on this preview for Grey’s Anatomy Season 12 Episode 4, it looks like they did not stop at first base:
What did you think of this installment? Go ahead and watch Grey’s Anatomy online now if you need to catch up.